Let these words reach into your heart as words written filled with truth, just for you.
By Jeanette LeBlanc
For the endings, and the beginnings and all the spaces in between
For boldly speaking your truth and for all that you still hold inside
For falling over and over and rising again and again
For life lessons that left you in stunned disbelief and the gentle eyes of an unexpected teacher who lifted you up and carried you
For being willing to break in order to become
For moments of faith when there is no light to be found
For quiet resolve and for wailing in confusion
For claiming what is rightfully yours and for releasing what can no longer be
For loving what you don’t understand and questioning what you thought you knew for sure
For letting go and holding on tight
For learning your truth and for forgetting it all in order to start over again
For blind faith in something you cannot see, touch or feel
For the beauty in contradiction, the bitterness in the compromise and the brilliance of the mystery
For dancing with ache and longing, and for making peace with what you have
For the buckets of salty tears and the kindness that dried them all up
For pleasure and for pain and for the ability to hold both in one body
For releasing the wild spirit within and for holding yourself in quiet dignity
For the ease found in comfort zones and for the bravery of smashing down walls
For boundaries crossed and limits held firm
For the sweet bliss of forgiveness
For painstaking attention and determination and for wasting hours on beautifully impossible daydreams
For all the simple earthly pleasures that ground you here
For celebration and for mourning and for surrounding both in the ritual of spirit
For believing and for questioning and for the unsteady ground that bridges the two
For thinking you might never get what you want and for knowing you’ll always have what you need and for the bittersweet edge that this acceptance brings
For companionship and solitude and for the spaces you can have both at once
For growing older in body and staying young in spirit
For the times you thought you couldn’t go on, and the moment you realized that nothing could stop you
For knowing that you are divinity personified, beautiful beyond comprehension and powerful beyond measure
For all of this I honor you.
For all of this I honor you……..each and every one of you.
Much love, Amber